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Home printers suck because home computer buyers will always buy the cheapest printer, so it's a race to the bottom.
by apricot 6y ago
Home printers suck because home computer buyers will always buy the cheapest printer, so it's a race to the bottom.
- Spivak 6y agoThat explains cheap hardware but doesn't explain why the software is as bad as it is. Amortized over any large hardware vendor's product line the per-unit cost of investment in the software has got to be nothing.
- pixl97 6y agoThe software can only be explained by attempting to sell printers to, well, idiots. Looks pretty, doesn't work worth a crap. HP, please, just give me an 'enterprise' driver and nothing else, that's all I need.
- mark-r 6y agoMy experience is that hardware companies are almost universally bad at software. I can only guess it's because the hardware guys are treated like rockstars and the software guys are treated like a necessary evil.
- Nextgrid 6y agoThis applies to pretty much any other computer-related thing sold to non-tech people. They either don't care or don't have the skills to judge the quality, so a better quality but more expensive product will always lose in favour of the cheapest crap.